BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
21/12/2010
2 arrested Belarus presidential candidates freed
MINSK, Belarus -- Two of the Belarusian presidential candidates who were arrested in the hours after the election have been released.
Seven of the nine candidates opposing authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko were arrested Sunday and early Monday, some of them when riot police clashed with a crowd of thousands of demonstrators outside the main government building who were protesting alleged vote fraud.
The preliminary count gave Lukashenko nearly 80 percent of the vote, but international observers say the count was seriously flawed.
Candidate Grigory Kostusyev was later released and appeared at a news conference Tuesday. He said arrested candidate Dmitry Uss also had been released.
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